[Elecraft] "Quick & Dirty" Antenna?

df5rf [email protected]
Tue Apr 30 19:03:01 2002


Kirby,
If you go camping you might have some spare tent fibre poles left somewhere.
I've bought
mine as spare, half a meter of length each, 9 alltogether gives a 4.5meters
"mast". It is
very thin, but light-weight. It easily fits into a backpack. I replaced the
inner rubber by
a 1.5mm copper wire, and it can act as either a vertical for the higher
bands (some radials
help) or as a support for a longer wire, especially if you hike where you
don't have
any trees left for a dipole. I've been using a short dipole on a trip to
mountains higher than
2500mtrs before and always had trouble to set it up higher than 2 meters!
You can see a picture of this portable vertical on my website:
http://www.qsl.net/df5rf
(BTW, the picture was taken abt 200mtrs a.s.l - no real need for such a
thing ..hi)
Meanwhile, I have completed the antenna with camping guy ropes and pin
poles,
everything bought at a local camping store.
73
Gernot
DF5RF